1 Forest Road, Watford, WD25 7QP

1 Forest Road is an end-of-terrace house in Watford (WD25 7QP). It has a recorded floor area of 100 m² (around 1076 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2014) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £382,000 sits 238.1% above the 1999 sale of £113,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£105/sq ft) was about 54% below the postcode norm. At 100 m² it's 20.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (83 m² median across 13 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 85% of similar EPCs).